Tag: Geology on the Wing

I've decided to start posting again after a hiatus, and I will start it off by reviving an old series called "Geology on the Wing Wednesdays". Generally, these are photos I have taken of various places while flying low and slow in search of a $100 hamburger. This week's GOTWW comes from near Anadarko, Oklahoma, …

Whew! I had a hectic holiday season, but a great one. Too great, in fact, to be blogging. So now I am back in the swing of things, here is a quick photo from a recent trip to see family. Contrary to popular opinion, there is topography in Texas! Here is a nice shot of …

I love this shot of the Gulf Coast just west of the Mississippi delta: Note this plane has a slightly larger wing than the normal photos I post 🙂 I could try to explain the history of the Atchafalaya and how the Mississippi would have avulsed to this location if the US Army Corps of …

The Sabine river has a very interesting coastal history, mostly documented by Rufus LeBlanc. He shows a pattern of modern avulsions of the river updip from the coastline, leading to at least two deltas. Due to low sediment supply and the position of the coastline with the dominant Gulf winds, the deltas are wave dominated. …

Yes, folks, here it is - Two Texans in the same photo! In yellow is the AT-6 Texan, a famous military trainer aircraft that taught countless aviators to fly. It is usually painted in this classic yellow color and has that distinctive canopy and empennage (tail) shape. The other Texan is me, and that fire …

OK folks, I am back in action - on the way back from Florida the other weekend I took this photo of Barataria bay for my buddy Nick. Barataria bay is located just west of the Mississippi Rivera tidal basin behind a multiple-inlet barrier system, and is a great natural laboratory for coastal dynamics. Nick …

No, the sky isn't falling. Its a cool blog I just learned about called Rocks from Above. While I sometimes blog about cool geology I see from the air (see the Geology on the Wing series), this blog is all about interpreting geology from the window of a plane. Maybe me and Selby Cull, the …